Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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At last I’ve caught up.
Nurses have a vital role in improving and protecting the health of the population, and one area where we have opportunity and respons
Two years ago, the NHS adopted the ‘duty of candour’, a promise that when things go wrong the organisation should admit its mistakes
On reflection, Jane Bates is lucky to have made it.
With the arrival of spring, a small heap of unfamiliar junk lands on my desk.
The Migration Advisory Committee has spoken.
RCN Nurse of the Year Amanda Burston outlines how to recognise some of the early signs of an abusive relationship
Brexit, Trump and migration dominate the news, burying coverage of the doctors’ strike, dental charge rises and the new nursing assoc
Many will be frustrated by the latest study to be published by the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI).
Basics outweigh theory, insists Jane Bates.
Lisa blamed herself for what happened to her Aunt Flora.
Two months after I took up my post as chair of the Nursing and Midwifery Council in January 2015, one of the organisation’s most sign
How many nurses and midwives in the UK are professors? Who knows and does it matter?
Beware pension changes, warns Jane Bates.
The nurse is gentle with me and tells me I perhaps need to drink more water. But ‘Dr Google’ does not pull his punches. Blood in the urine? I have cancer without a doubt and likely as not will be dead within a year.
Former RCN president Lucy Ottley once said: ‘What an opportunity we have to guide the future of our profession, while maintaining the best traditions and standards of the past.’
Revalidation, one of the most significant changes to the regulation of nurses and midwives, is now under way.
Convalescence makes sense, says Jane Bates.
